President-elect Trump said on Tuesday that negotiating away the Panama Canal was a "very big mistake" by former President Jimmy Carter – ahead of Carter's state funeral later this week. Trump ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants ships to pay less to move through the Panama Canal, and he said he would demand control over the canal if he doesn’t get what he wants.

Trump called Carter a "good man" but said he believed ceding the Panama Canal is why Carter didn't win a second term. The comments came as Carter's remains were being transported from Georgia to ...

On Tuesday, Trump criticized former President Jimmy Carter for ceding control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian government even though the U.S. spent vast sums of money and manpower to build ...

With Trump's Panama Canal talk, it feels like 1976 all over again. December 28, 2024 5:00 AM ET. Ron Elving ... Carter had been cool to the idea as a candidate, ...

But when Trump was quoted in a 2011 CNN story at the time saying the US “stupidly” returned the canal to Panama “in exchange for nothing,” the comments sparked local outrage and led Panama City’s ...

Trump is wrong: Jimmy Carter didn’t lose due to the Panama Canal. In a Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump criticized Carter’s ‘mistake’ twice. But the Panama Canal Treaty isn’t the ...

The incoming president criticized former President Carter, who Trump said "foolishly gave it away, for One Dollar." In 1977, Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty, which phased out U.S. control of ...

President-elect Donald Trump has said he will take back control of the Panama Canal from the nation’s government if U.S. interests are not protected, in line with the Carter–Torrijos Treaty of ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday night vowed to demand a return of the Panama Canal to the United States if Panamanian officials continue to charge U.S. vessels crossing the vital waterway ...

It took 11 years, but on the first day of World War I, the canal opened under American control. The U.S. invested over $375 million to build the canal and agreed to pay annual royalties, albeit a ...

I have no idea where Trump got this idea, but it makes little sense. The Panama Canal Treaty, initially negotiated by Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, was signed and ushered through the Senate by ...